Approving disbursements

When an agency bill disbursement is in the “awaiting approval” state, it can be approved by certain users. The user assigned to the approval activity can approve it, or a user with supervisor permissions and a sufficiently high authority limit can approve it.

There are two ways to approve disbursements:
  • Approve the disbursement directly
  • Approve the approval activity

Whenever either of these actions are performed, BillingCenter marks the disbursement as approved and the corresponding approval activity as complete.

This documentation describes how to approve a disbursement directly.

Use the following endpoint to approve disbursements:
  • POST /billing/v1/disbursements/{disbursementId}/approve

No request body is needed.

Command
POST /billing/v1/disbursements/bc:9781/approve
Request body
<no request body>

The disbursement is returned by the call. The status in the return payload is set to Approved.